Sight Specific
Testing the ability to recover from or adjust to…
Post our spring, post hoping for change: How can we keep going?
A Work qustioning how to find continuity and perseverance in the world we live in today.
The Resilience of the Body readapted to be performed outdoors in a special duo formate in collaboration with Mahmoud El Hadad
Choreography & Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
performance :Mahmoud El Hadad
Sound: Open source
Light design: Saber el Sayed
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Production: Dayer for Artistic Productions
PLACCC Budapest Hungary
"Us ... an entity
You ... me and you
Me alone
How we suspend in time
How we come together
And everything in between
Turning ..."
Event announcement by Goethe Cairo
On May 10th we will present a dance performance by the duo Salma Salem and Aly Khamis with musical accompaniment by Mohamed Shafik. Together they perform an adaptation and continuation of TURNING, a production by choreographer Shaymaa Shoukry, whose central metaphor stands for so much in life or even life itself: the rotation, the cycle, that which is constantly repeating. We find it in the macrocosm, in the microcosm, but above all in and in ourselves. Everything is in motion. Everything is turning. Always and everywhere.
Commissioned for:
Goethe Institute Cairo 60 Years Anniversary celebration
2018
A re-adaptation and in depth exploration of the action of Turning (performed for stage in 2014 contemporary dance night)
On sight creation through a residency for Women by the Sea festival El Gouna Egypt
performed by:
Salma Salem
Aly Khamis
Marihan Samy
Kamel Rageb
Music composed and performed live by Mohamed Shafik
A dynamic and collaborative project with mixed ability dancers, dedicated to exploring ways of accepting differences and connecting through similarities. By giving space and time to self-expression and to listening, the piece seeks to deconstruct mental and physical constraints and ultimately allow our spirit to fly to new horizons.
Testing the ability to recover from or adjust to…
Post our spring, post hoping for change: How can we keep going?
The Resilience of the Body is a solo about how to find continuity and perseverance in the world we live in today.
Re-adaptation of the performance from the stage to a basketball field within the context of Nuit Blanche 2018
Brussels Belgium with audience participation. Running four showings on loop with Mohamed Fouad sharing the Arabic Version of the performance.
Choreography & Performance: Shaymaa Shoukry
Sound: Open source
Light design: Saber el Sayed
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Production: Dayer for Artistic Productions
Coproduction Arab Arts Focus
Residency and Rehearsals: Cairo Contemporary Dance Center
Traces
I'm just passing by, I might leave a trace behind or it might be blown by the wind.
I search for my axis between nature and the city, on unstable grounds.
Performance and choreography: Shaymaa Shoukry
Music: Mohamed Shafik
Special thanks to the cast and crew of "Turning " 2014 for starting the work process with me.
Thanks to Nacera Beleza, Dalia el abd and Sultan Sherif for the inspiration of turning.
Nassim el Raqs 2016
on site chorographic research and creation
The map is (not) the territory
Mentorship : Nikolaus Gansterer
4 solo project with the participation of With Omar Adel, Marta Vallejo and Shaymaa Shoukry
Production : Momkin – espaces de possibles, with the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum and the European Union.
Border
Performers… interacting with the multiple layers of the space, and the public to shed light on the different aspects of the sight…. The sea… the boats… the buildings … the promenade… the street… the borders… the limits… the harshness…the softness… and the other… how all these elements co-exist and create complex systems… our cities
Decomposing to recompose … the perception of our spaces and ourselves.
Redefining the borders that surround us.
Researching ways to introduce our physical presence in one of the public beaches of Alexandria using the language of contemporary dance to communicate with a the public. Researching the build up on the use of gestures to provide a reading of our bodies that is coherent for eyes with freshness to viewing dance in that form. We used music in the same way; where a familiar reference is introduced and then taken away, inviting audience to hear sounds that are more experimental and less familiar. The goal of our research was to share a vision and find a quality of presense that is not invasive on the neighborhood and is welcomed.
Music by Maurice Louca
Performance Aly Khamees, Mirette Micheal Mounir Said and Shaymaa Shoukry
Choreography Shaymaa Shoukry
The work was developed and shown within a residency hosted by Nassim el raqs first edition 2011 an on-site choreographic and interdisciplinary art creation festival.
Running Nucleus
You and Me... In Between
Could I lose myself into us, never finding me again?
The spaces between two people… how at each proximity the relationship changes. The common body of love verses individuality, the verticality of ONE in the relation between TWO.
Footage filmed by Dalia Abd El Aziz and Emma Benany
Concept, Performance, Sound composition and Video Editing by Shaymaa Shoukry
Special thanks to Sherif Kamel for his Presence
This work is a result of a Creation Residency offered by L’Officina in the framework of the Miniature project, Marseilles, France.
A live interaction with the image though physical presence, dance, and live painting took place during the performance.
Studio showing at l’officina
Premier at Fort Saint-Jean, Marseille Imaginez Maintenant Festival 2010
Untitled... In Taz Palace
Sight specific performance researching ‘space’ primarily as a point of departure for creating a dialogue.
Looking at the different architectural levels of viewing a performer / a performance and how this influences the perception. Keeping an element of play in this exploration.
A happening in Amir Taz Palace, Egypt 2008
Curated by Filippo Armati
Supported by Pro Helvetia.
Meet-foul 2009
Dance and instant painting, launch of “Meetfool” online performing artist database, Darb 17-18 Cairo Egypt
Experimentation with Emma Benany and Ganzeer
